From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzNHE-0004BI-2a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:49:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzNHA-0004nD-Qm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:49:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzNHA-0004n7-LL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:49:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:48:55 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20150601124604-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1430320913-20737-1-git-send-email-somlo@cmu.edu> <1430320913-20737-5-git-send-email-somlo@cmu.edu> <20150531181048.GC5268@redhat.com> <556C046B.9070704@redhat.com> <20150601092645-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <556C1F63.1090605@redhat.com> <20150601121908-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <556C3757.7080603@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <556C3757.7080603@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: matt.fleming@intel.com, "Gabriel L. Somlo" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, gsomlo@gmail.com, kraxel@redhat.com, Laszlo Ersek On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 12:43:35PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 01/06/2015 12:23, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Still, reserving part of the namespace for QEMU internal use > > is *not* policy, it's just good engineering. > > > > How about we forbid adding files under "etc/" ? > > > > That would be enough to avoid conflicts. > > I do not understand. What we're doing is free-beer. We can always say > no. What's your worry? Someone writes a tool using a specific path. We then add same path upstream, script breaks. > One usecase of this feature is to avoid recompiling QEMU while playing > with firmware. If you cannot mimic QEMU's behavior (which is to add > "etc/" files), the feature is pointless, or at least I totally cannot > understand its purpose and I'm against merging it. > > Paolo Confused. Why does it produce the warning then? If it's just for playing games, add a configure switch to enable it, and disable by default. Don't set traps for users. -- MST